Fandom: JAGPairing: Harm/MacSpoilers: Everything up to and including the series finale.

Disclaimer: I don't own them. If I did, I wouldn't need to write this AU.

Author's Note: QD on the ajmacfic Yahoo! group requested an episode fix for Fair Winds and Following Seas. If you ARE a Harm/Mac shipper and are still flying high from the series finale, I suggest you don't read.

Mac smiled. Nine years. She'd waited nine years for this. "What are you proposing?"

They kissed. He wasn't a very good kisser, but she put that from her mind. "I'm proposing... marry me."

She smiled brilliantly and kissed him fervently.

"London's nice," Harm murmured.

"So's San Diego."

They pulled back and looked at each other. This had always been the problem, hadn't it? It wasn't fate--it was circumstance. Their careers.

"Harm..."

"Mac..."

She shook her head. "Are you willing to give up your career for me?" Her words from three years ago echoed back to them both. 'Are you willing to give up your girlfriend to have me?'

'Yes.' That was the answer she'd never heard. He had said it quietly, hesitantly, after she had left.

He looked into her rich brown eyes. "Mac, I..." He hesitated for too long.

A lump formed in her throat. "Don't, Harm. Just... don't."

"Mac, please."

She broke from his embrace. "So you're not willing to give up the Navy. And I'm not resigning from the Corps." She'd decided that long ago. She wouldn't give up the Marines for any man. Including Harm.

When I first read the spoilers, I thought they would have the fade-to-black right after Harm popped the question. Then, when I read about the coin toss, I went, "What?! They're going to let a coin toss decide if they get married?!"

Honestly? That would fit them so well. And I would've preferred that to... the other.

*grumbles* Stupid DPB... you said both shippers and non-shippers would be happy... you bastard.